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Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards (The Bodleian Library - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive)
Tom Phillips
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Description for Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards (The Bodleian Library - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive)
Hardcover. Continuing the artist-designed 'Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive' series, 'Weddings' presents 200 images from the turn of the century that captures all the stages of the ceremony. Series: Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive. Num Pages: 112 pages, 202 halftones. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP; WCS; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444. Vintage People on Photo Postcards. Series: Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive. 112 pages, 202 halftones. Continuing the artist-designed 'Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive' series, 'Weddings' presents 200 images from the turn of the century that captures all the stages of the ceremony. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP; WCS; WJW. Dimension: 202 x 184 x 16. Weight: 448.
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Weddings captures all the stages of the ceremony, with preparations, wedding vehicles and their various casts of people in lively scenes at church and home. Each book contains 200 images chosen with the eye of ... Read more
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Weddings captures all the stages of the ceremony, with preparations, wedding vehicles and their various casts of people in lively scenes at church and home. Each book contains 200 images chosen with the eye of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243693
SKU
V9781851243693
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About Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips CBE, RA, is a major British artist who lives and works in London. www.tomphillips.co.uk
Reviews for Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards (The Bodleian Library - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive)
'An important contribution to social history and visual culture.'
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